A 40-year-old Nigerian citizen residing illegally in Houston has pleaded guilty to participating in a business email compromise conspiracy and orchestrating a romance scam targeting victims nationwide ...

A Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy that took place in Maryland in 2017, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland. U.S. Attorney for ...

Nigerian email scams have become nearly as commonplace as the Internet itself. But one Australian woman wound up in jail after turning the tables--to the tune of $30,000--on a group of con artists.

Following an 18-month investigation, a man said to have served as the go-between for an international team of scammers running an elaborate “Nigerian prince” email scheme has been arrested in Slidell, ...

SEVIERVILLE (WATE) – One of the country’s longest running scams is taking on a new twist. The Nigerian letter scam is basically a fund-transfer fraud that’s now reaching people by email and the ...

Global What Happens When People Actually Fall for Those Nigerian Email Scams Just in case you needed a couple more reasons to delete that Nigerian email scam in your inbox, how about about possible ...

America's Nigerian-American tea party faction got a little bit smaller this week after Sen. Ted Cruz made an ill-advised Nigerian email scam joke during a speech on the Healthcare.gov rollout. Now ...

A Poland-based Nigerian, Tochuwku Nnebocha, is at risk of 20 years’ imprisonment following his extradition to the United States of America for allegedly defrauding elderly Americans. This is coming on ...